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Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
BRAVE aims to improve community resilience to climate change and the capacity of key government institutions responsible for delivering climate resilience, including systems for adaptive and shock responsive social protection.
Enhancing Gender Outcomes through Social Services Systems Strengthening (Samartha)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will focus on improving the systems and capacity of local government to deliver its social service mandates with a specific focus on improving access to quality health and education services, especially by women, girls and excluded groups. This will be complemented with national policy support in the Health and Education sectors to ensure sector policies and resource allocations align to support Nepal in building responsive and resilient Health and Education systems.
Tristan da Cunha Provision of Technical Assistance and Essential Infrastructure 2023 to 2026
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enable the Administration of Tristan da Cunha to provide appropriate public services to meet the basic health, education, safeguarding and governance needs of the island community, through the provision of professional expertise and training.
Refugee Support, Empowerment and Transformation (Re-SET)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme is targeting to provide refugee support in Uganda that is beyond an emergency framing onto a longer-term more sustainable footing. This will be delivered through three pillars below. Acute humanitarian needs will be provided but to the most highly vulnerable based upon an up-to-date needs assessment. Self-Reliance and Resilience will be prioritised, supporting refugees and host communities to transition from poverty and vulnerability by building livelihoods and income generating opportunities using market-led approaches and private sector linkages System Change targeting impactful areas of transformation. This could include technical support for the transition of services, Refugee Engagement Forums, and establishment of a data and learning facility
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Building in Somalia (HARBS) 2022-2028
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of conflict and disaster affected populations through provision of life-saving assistance and contribute to resilience building of benefitting households to withstand shocks.
Tackling Maternal and Child Undernutrition Programme- Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To contribute towards improved health and nutrition status for children under two years measured primarily by a reduction in stunting by 2023.
Support to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve agricultural productivity in developing countries and to increase farmers' access to markets whilst increasing the economic resilience of poor people globally
Investing in Human Capital through Partnerships Beyond Aid in the Social Sectors Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve governance and accountability in education, health and social protection sectors and contribute to policy and research which will inform interventions to improve equity and reduce poverty.
Humanitarian Assistance, Recovery and Protection (HARP) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The HARP programme will provide lifesaving assistance to the most vulnerable people in Ukraine and Moldova, delivering in line with commitments set out in the UK humanitarian framework. The programme will prioritise humanitarian assistance to the areas of most severe needs, protect civilians, particularly those who may face barriers to accessing assistance, with a focus on gender-based violence and promotion of International Humanitarian Law and prevent the deterioration of households into humanitarian need through preparedness efforts to mitigate impact of shocks.
Building Resilience and adapting to climate change in Malawi
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to strengthen the resilience of poor households in Malawi to withstand current and projected weather and climate-related shocks and stresses. This will in turn halt the annual cycle of humanitarian crises that blights people’s lives, harms poverty reduction efforts and swallows up resources. The UK will invest up to £90.5 million over eight years [2018-2027] to provide direct benefits to 1.7 million poor and vulnerable people in Malawi [approximately 300,000 households].The programme also supports environmental and resilience outcomes through reducing deforestation directly and indirectly.
Responding to the needs of Women and Children in Yemen 301140
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will address the devastating impact the conflict in Yemen is having on women and children, particularly the most marginalised. It will provide access to life-saving integrated health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and protection services. This approach responds directly to two key UK humanitarian aims in Yemen: preventing famine and ensuring respect for International Humanitarian Law.
Kenya Integrated Refugee and Host Community Support Programme (PAMOJA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote social and economic integration between approximately 400,000 refugees and 50,000 people living in host communities in Kenya by supporting the provision of basic humanitarian assistance and livelihood.
Strengthening Societal and Economic Resilience in Jordan (SSERJ)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will expand contributory social insurance schemes which will allow more informal jobs to be formalised. It will also support an expansion of tax-financed social assistance schemes, seeking greater coherence between national systems and those supporting refugees to improve efficiency. Frontloaded financial support will demonstrate proof of concept which, alongside technical support, is appropriate assistance to a Low Middle Income Country. A comprehensive sustainability strategy and exit plan for UK support will be developed during the inception period and monitored throughout implementation of this programme.
Food Security Safety Net Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
As FCDO Yemen’s flagship programme it will provide immediate life-saving assistance to those most in need (including women and marginalised groups) and ensure a more sustainable response to on-going high humanitarian needs and unexpected shocks in this protracted crisis context.
Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP Phase 3)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce poverty, hunger and vulnerability by providing 133,000 of the poorest households (approximately 798,000 people) in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands with cash transfers and up to an additional 750,000 households (approximately 4,500,000 people) during drought emergencies. In addition, this final phase of the programme will ensure a transition of the Hunger Safety Net Programme to full Government of Kenya ownership and financing to guarantee the sustainability of the programme after a UK exit. The programme aims to graduate targeted HSNP households out of poverty and improve the nutrition status of pregnant mothers and children below 1,000 days of age.
Support to Social Protection Programme 2 (SSPP2)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Government of Mozambique to develop a bigger, better and more shock responsive social protection system. SSPP2 will help poor and vulnerable people meet their basic needs and cope better with crises through social protection. It will expand the Government of Mozambique’s social protection programmes to deliver more cash transfers to the most vulnerable. It will provide technical assistance to improve social protection programme delivery and value for money, making government programmes more efficient, effective and equitable. It will develop government capacity to respond to crises quickly and effectively through the national social protection system. The programme will leverage additional donor and government resources of about £70m per year. Ultimately, SSPP2 will support the creation of a sustainable, nationally owned system to redistribute revenues from gas that Mozambique is expected to start earning in the next decade.
The Evidence Fund - 300708
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme ( HARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
In line with the G7 Famine Prevention Compact, Nigeria’s Humanitarian and Resilience Programme (HARP) will provide life-saving support to the most vulnerable and strengthen resilience, opening pathways to livelihoods. HARP will enhance overall effectiveness of the UN-led humanitarian response, including a focus on building Nigerian ownership.
Indo-Pacific Humanitarian Mechanism Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Indo-Pacific Humanitarian Mechanism (IPHM) will strengthen FCDO agility in preparing and responding quickly to new disasters in the Indo-Pacific. It will deliver one of the International Development Strategy’s top priorities: providing life-saving humanitarian assistance and preventing the worst forms of human suffering and the International Development White Paper’s emphasis on better preparedness in disaster response.
Strengthening the Health System and Provision of Essential Services in South Sudan (SHAPES)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide a government led effective health system that will deliver improved access to quality health services across ten states and three administrative areas in South Sudan with a specific focus on reducing maternal and child mortality.
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